Count Rihard Ursini von Blagay (17 August 1786 – 14 March 1858) was an aristocrat, Slovene botanist and patron of the arts.

He was both first cousin and uncle-in-law of Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, an Austrian poet and liberal politician from Carniola, better known as Anastasius Grün.

[2] He organized numerous cultural gatherings of Slovene en-lighteners at his estate, Polhov Gradec Castle, which he acquired through the marriage to the noble Billichgrätz family.

At the site of the old castle an octagonal gloriette was later built, which his wife, Countess Antonia turned into a chapel in 1853, adding 14 shrines for the Stations of the Cross to it to create a Calvary.

The buyer was Luiza Urbančič (1842-1918), sister-in-law of Josipina Turnograjska, one of the first Slovene female writers, poets, and composers.